Saturday, April 30, 2011

Tiddly Inks Treasure Hunt Blog Hop!!!

Happy Happy Tiddly Treasure Hunting Saturday!!! Welcome to our fabulous Tiddly Blog Hop!!! We are well on our way to celebrating Tiddly Ink's First Birthday and we're kicking off our upcoming celebrations in style!! We have a GLORIOUS hop for you today with all of my fabulous Design Team sisters as well as amazing friends of Tiddly Inks hopping along with us!!

If you've arrived from Jess' stunning blog and creation then you are following the right map!! If you have come here to see me, (thank you!) but would like to hop along with us please start at the Tiddly Inks shop!!

There are creations, prizes and inspiration to be had all around!! You will be hopping along in search of beauty, booty and a secret message displayed by our very own Pirate Jane that could earn you fabulous Tiddly Prizes!!

Each picture of Jane will reveal one letter of a secret code. But you must hop in order so you can decipher the secret code. :) Once you visit each blog in the correct order, your clues will reveal a secret message which will lead you to the treasure chest of prizes....Arrggghhhh!

Once the secret code is revealed, email the message to ccart87@gmail.com and

you will be entered into the drawing for the "booty" and prizes.

Our booty is scattered throughout all the different blogs, so as you hop be sure to stop by each blog and find some inspiring creations and prizes. :)

My creations today us the new and absolutely ADORABLE "Geekatude", "Flutterby" and "Tanker". (I couldn't help myself!! =)

We start with Geekatude. Isn't he ADORABLE?? I love his tie (my 5 year old son often wears ties for no reason!) and his funky sneakers and iPod!! I went with a 5.5 x 5.5 size card base. I used Core cardstock for my base and took a nail file to it to grunge it up. I then used both music notes and blue check paper (both from a DCWV mat stack) as my background papers. I stitched and layered and grunged everything up. I used my coveted Jillibean Soup paper - Atomic Soup for the background of my Nestie circle. I've been waiting for SO long to bust this paper out. I must get more as I just LOVE it! I used my Nesties for my sentiment panel. My sentiment says "reboot". Perfect considering he's carrying lots of electronic media!! I also used my sparkly black number stickers to add the number Pi to the upper right hand corner. (heheeh - so fabulously "geeky") Embellishments also include a yellow binder clip tied with two tiny pieces of red and white baker's twine. With lots of stitching I concluded this piece to be complete! =)

My secret special letter today is the letter "E"! (in case the .png file doesn't show for some reason)

The interior of my card is a mix of yellows and blues. Again, lots of stitching, my Hello sentiment is from SU! and I added a cute, jumbo, plaid brad as an added little touch.

My next creation uses the oh so adorable Flutterby. I just love the nature inspired quality this image has. Barefoot in pigtails playing with butterflies...does it get any better? I printed her out twice and colored her with my Copics. The second image I only colored her hair and trimmed it out. I then added it to my originally colored image popping her hair up on foam dots. I glittered up her butterflies using my Quickie Glue Pen and my Super Nova glitter from SU!

I used a mish mash of papers from my scrap stash to pull together different styles with similar vibes. The card base is 5.5 x 5.5. The card base is Kraft, followed by Olive cardstock from SU!, followed by Core cardstock that has butterflies on it. You can't see them on the front but you will see them on the interior of the card. I've distressed my paper with a nail file so that the butterflies stand out more. I layered and stitched all over the place for a cozy look. I used my jumbo scallop punch on the very preppie green and blue gingham paper. I then used my adorable, pastel alphabet stickers to cover the edge of the scallop. I added a dark, kelly green polka dotted ribbon in a puffy, sweet bow.

My sentiment is from PTI - "Enjoy everyday - Enjoy life". My rolled roses are done in yellow cardstock, coated in Modge Podge and glittered up using my Doodlebug Glitter in Bumblebee Yellow. I have adhered them on with 3-D glue dots.

My card interior has more of the Core cardstock with butterflies as you can see here. I've used three nested circles for space for a little note. I truly love the simplicity of this image and tried to mimic that in the interior here.

Next up is the GORGEOUS and totally hardcore Tanker. She is a Steampunk Goth Pin-up and I KNOW you'll love her!! Sweet, sassy and edgy. Just my kind of gal!!

I've once again, colored Tanker in with my Copic markers. I then took my watercolor crayons and roughly colored all around her. I took a paintbrush and a small amount of water to move and push that color all around. I adhered her to a panel of gray SEI designer paper and stitched around her. I then tore around a bit of the edging to grunge it up a bit. My background papers are a mix of the same SEI paper pack and G45 Steampunk Debutante. I used the sketch inspiration from the most recent sketch challenge over at the Smeared and Smudged forum.

The chocolate brown polka dotted paper is more of the Core cardstock that I scuffed, stitched and tore up. My embellishments are also from G45. The rusty washer is from my darling husband's tool bench! =)

I, once again, kept the card interior rather simple. Using the same papers I grabbed my Nesties (I can't seem to create without them now!! lol!) and added three layers with a simple sentiment of Thank You.

As a very special thank you to you all for being such loyal Tiddly Inks fans I have a jumbo prize pack for you!!! All you have to do is follow along and leave love for each of our amazing artists in order to be entered into the drawing!! Here is a picture of what I am offering up. I am also going to list the contents as I couldn't capture everything in the photo:

And, there's more!! Tiddly Inks will be having a sale May 1-3 to celebrate our first birthday. If you are interested, visit the SHOP and then plan to create a fun project for the challenges or the next blog hop on May 10.

On May 10, Tiddly Inks will hold another blog hop that is open to everyone. You can check out the details on Christy’s blog HERE. It will be part of Tiddly Inks’s fun birthday party celebration and the special prize for the that blog hop will be a chance to win a digital stamp customized and designed for just for you.

Thanks so much for hopping in our Treasure Hunt. I hope you enjoyed seeing a lot of new images, some beautiful cards and visiting with our special guests and regular designers.

Now, all you have to do is click the cute button below to keep on treasure hunting!! Good luck and thanks for being here with us today!!

WOW! I am blown away! Your cards are outstanding!! Love Flutterby and how you've popped her hair out. Geekatude is just too cute. Tanker is one hardcore chica! Love them all - your coloring, the layouts, everything!

FIRST- Thank you for inviting me, I am having a BLAST. Second, love ALL of the creations, but TANKER- oh my! You have outdone yourself with the grunginess!!! FABULOUS! and the background paper for Geek Atude, AWESOME. I must get some for my house of geeks :). You are the Queen of versatile creativity. QUEEN

Way Cool..Sweet...Awesome...you have an amazing talent for cardmaking! All three capture a differnt feeling, make me feel differnt when I view them...yet the details and the master finishing tie them all back to the same artist. Wonderful...thanks for sharing!

All of your cards are stunning. I think I love the steampunk one the best, though. However, it is tough because I'm a huge fan of the Jillibean Soup, especially the Atomic Soup. I must say, I'm enjoying your creations, a lot.

Oh my gosh Meredith the detailing in these cards are amazing. I LOVE the Periodic Table background, super-super cute, and the bakers twine and clip, the rolled roses on the Flutterby card. So awesome, I just got my hands on a paper rose SVG yestserday and am itching to use it. Great work on all the cards the details blow me away.

What awesome cards, they are fabulous and are just getting me raring to go make cards LOL. These are great , thank you for the incentive. And thank you for sharing with us. hugs Cathyhttp://cathyshappiness.blogspot.com

Wow - your cards are amazing. So much detail right down to the last fleck of glitter. I fell in love with GeekaTude earlier in the hop and you have show cased him just perfectly. Thank you for sharing your artistic talent. I will be back to check out the rest of your work.

I'm a stay at home wife to my darling hubby of almost 19 years. I'm also a homeschooling Mum of 3 small, beautiful, delicious and often sticky children and a gorgeous and sweet pitbull named Katie.
I've always loved art, crafting and photography. I find time every single day to work one or all of these into the mere 24 hours that we have daily. I find it fulfills my soul, my mind and keeps my "zen" in check.